PTaylor's WebLog
Flight Sim discussions; mostly on the core platform ( graphics and terrain, platform team, sim engine, geo tools and geo data, international, internal tools, technical art ) plus news on releases and updates, and the occasional tweaks and tips.
Platform performance Update:early reports on Fall CPUs is that they rock!
It appears the promise of the Penryn/Wolfdale/Yorkfield Intel CPUs is being born out. See...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 08/07/2007
Windows update ( XP and Vista ) for Intel multi-core processors.
A microcode update from Intel that affects multi-core processors, here. This seems like a good...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 07/16/2007
Friday the 13th is here, and so is the 2nd FSX-DX10 progress report
With this blog post, I have likely run out of snarky dates to make a post on. Ides of August anyone?...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 07/13/2007
Vista Appcompat update for FSX
The KB located at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/932246/ contains an application compatibility...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 07/10/2007
FSX SP1: The blog posts
We have collected the set of blog posts I created on release of SP1, and turned them into an article...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 07/03/2007
FSX Performance benchmarks by Toms' Hardware
I wrote an article up for the fsinsider site, which references the recent Toms Hardware graphics...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 07/03/2007
FSX Tip of the Week:Reporting those pesky content errors
Here is a set of tweaks for FSX.cfg that will enable a set of errors that can help pinpoint content...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 07/02/2007
DX10 on XP: Round 2
Today on AVSim.com, in this thread...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/28/2007
For those without broadband, PC Pilot has SP1 on CD
See this thread for ordering info https://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=71592 Yes, you...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/22/2007
Summer is here, and so is the start of info about FSX-DX10
So it’s the first day of summer! As part of the celebration, I wanted to talk about and show...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/21/2007
FSX and Win32 Process Address Space
I see multiple threads on /3G enabling FSX to get around an “Out of Memory” error that some flyers...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/15/2007
Focusing on the Blurries
I have done some investigation of the reports of the blurries. There is an article here that...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/14/2007
FSX Tip of the Week:Water slider and FPS costs
So why does FSX not render as fast as your typical FPS game? The primary difference is the sheer...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/08/2007
SP1 Tip of the Week:AI at 80% max
AI at high is a big cost, at least as much because some of the default aircraft have high Draw call...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/04/2007
FSX:Tweak of the Week ( or 2 )
Originally posted on fsinsider.com Now that I have burst peoples bubble on PerfBuckets and Procspeed...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/01/2007
SP1:Tweak of the Week ( or not )
Its come to my attention that various people and forums are suggesting tweaks to the ProcSpeed and...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/01/2007
FSX Tower Controller Fix for non-English versions
I just wanted to note here that last week ( 5/21 ) we posted a fix for the ATC issue that was...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 06/01/2007
SP1 Tips
Here are some general suggestions and a few tips I have gleaned from the forums. General Performance...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/23/2007
This blog is not Support!
This blog is not product support. I cannot take support questions on configs, bug reports, etc. I...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/21/2007
Deleted the imminent post
It got in the way of the flow of the SP1 data. I hope no one minds. I saved it just in case, but it...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/17/2007
FSX SP1:New tweaks
In fsx.cfg --- There is a tweak to control scheduling of threads on cores. It is not recommended to...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/15/2007
FSX SP1:SDK, SimConnect, and 3rd party fixes
Z has a great article on what SP1contains for the SDK, SimConnect, and 3rd party developers here....
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/15/2007
FSX SP1:Missions, MultiPlayer, and Misc Fixes
Missions · MISSIONS: Monsoon Approach: Rain is missing · MISSIONS: Swedish Championship Soaring...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/15/2007
FSX SP1:Preparing to Install
Setting up for SP1 SP1 needs a pristine RTM. That includes no add-ons. Many 3rd party add-ons can...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/15/2007
FSX SP1 is now live!
Available on here Please read the rest of the SP1 "wave" of blog posts.
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/15/2007
FSX SP1 News:AMD quote
Today AMD announced their new Phenom™ processor here. As part of this press release, Aces Studio...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/14/2007
FSX SP1:Size of the download
This gets asked all the time and I have replied about it at least a dozen times, so lets make it...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/11/2007
Tweak of the Week
So here is an idea. Occasionally I will publish information on various "tweaks" to the product and...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/11/2007
FSX SP1 in Final Test
We have resolved all Beta bugs, including fixing 4 late graphics bugs. We found a couple small Loc...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/10/2007
FSX SP1:Beta4 posted
While we fixed the perf regression issue in B3, we still had aircraft mouse-rect and animated part...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/04/2007
Moderated Blog comments and rules
So it’s been almost 2 weeks since I started moderating blog posts. I am publishing some of them, but...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 05/03/2007
FSX SP1:Beta3 posted
We just posted SP1 Beta3 to the beta testers. We had a couple extra 3rd party bugs that needed to be...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 04/26/2007
Heads up Vista FSX flyers – Vista multiple monitor fix now available!
There has been a known issue with Vista and multiple monitors, where trying to go full-screen with...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 04/24/2007
On a positive note
Now that I have sullied the FSX blogosphere with the machinations from the comments on my blog, :-),...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 04/24/2007
Due to BLog spamming by a certain individual
I can no longer allow unmoderated comments on my blog. Sorry about that, but the comments have...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 04/24/2007
FSX SP1: Beta2 posted
Another step towards a final SP1! We hope Beta2 verifies we have fixed what needs to be fixed. Then...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 04/14/2007
FSX SP1 News:Intel quote
Today Intel announced their new 2.93G QX6800 Quad Core processor here. As part of this press...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 04/09/2007
Two things, today is my birthday and we have posted FSX SP1 Beta to the beta forums
It should be live within the hour. There are still a few issues to work on, but its good enough to...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 03/27/2007
FSX SP1 Update:Beta
Good news and bad news. The good news is, we are real close to putting a strong beta build of SP1...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 03/07/2007
Blog posts:context is important
Sometimes we here in Redmond forget how much people focus on what we say and what can and is read...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 03/07/2007
3rd party complications due to multiple FSX releases?
Multiple times a concern has come up that our release plan unduly complicates the 3rd party...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 03/04/2007
Optimized for Vista does not mean DX10
There is a common misconception that "Optimized for Vista" equates to DX10 support. “Optimized for...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 03/03/2007
FSX:More on SLI and Multi-core
Compatible versus Capable I keep hearing "FSX isn’t SLI or Dual core compatible/capable"; although...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 03/03/2007
Timeline Update:XP,DX9,DX10
Now that my blog is all over arstechnica and digg, I need to correct something that is being...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 02/16/2007
SP1 Status
SP1 Status update: We are still working the list of bugs. We are down to the last 10-15% of the...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 02/14/2007
Why DX10 wasnt created on XP and why it isnt in XP
Lets consider the software development lifecycle, the DX10 lifecycle, and the history of Vista, The...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 02/14/2007
What are the components of DX10
A poster on a previous thread on AVSim.com made the comment: "DX10 is an API from what I understand,...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 02/14/2007
The PC Industry, Multicore, and FSX ( with a little DX10 thrown in for good measure )
This is a recap of an AVSim.com post, that I wanted to capture here. I'd like to take the time to...
Author: Phil Taylor Date: 02/14/2007